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Dimension added to Dead or Alive film

Genre film distributors gets rights to Corey Yuen's game-based martial arts flick; fall release planned.

While survival horror games, first-person shooters, and action games seem to be all the rage when it comes to subject matter for movies these days, the fighting game might be gaining some ground on those genres. Variety is reporting today that the genre-based arm of Miramax, Dimension Films, has picked up the rights to distribute director Corey Yuen's upcoming film take on Tecmo's Dead or Alive series in North America next fall. Tekken and Mortal Kombat are also scheduled to get new film adaptations next year.

Yuen's resume seems tailor-made for a movie based on a fighting game. His career as a fight choreographer in films has spanned several decades, from old-school martial arts classics like The Instant Kung Fu Man and Drunken Master, to more recent fare like Lethal Weapon 4 and The One, both of which were made with longtime collaborator Jet Li.

The film was shot in China and boasts a number of recognizable faces in its lineup. Devon Aoki (Sin City, Fast and the Furious) will star as Kasumi, with Shane Kosugi (son of '80s ninja film mainstay Sho Kosugi) taking the role of Ninja Gaiden star Ryu Hyabusa. Jaime Pressly (My Name Is Earl, Joe Dirt) takes the role of wrestling vixen Tina Armstrong, while actual pro wrestler Kevin Nash (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze, the Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard) will play her disapproving father, Bass.

The cast is rounded out by Sarah Carter (Final Destination 2, K-9: P.I.), Natassia Malthe (Elektra, K-9: P.I.), Matthew Marsden (Black Hawk Down, Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid), Eric Roberts (Runaway Train, The Specialist), and Mortal Kombat's own Liu Kang, Robin Shou.

Earlier this month, Variety reported that Dimension Films had signed an agreement with Crystal Sky Pictures to distribute the film based on Konami's Castlevania in North America.

42 Comments

  • sniper2k0

    Posted Oct 1, 2007 7:33 am GMT

    The movie is actually quite good...NOT!

  • deckmaster2004

    Posted May 22, 2007 12:19 pm GMT

    i just have a bad feeling about this, maybe a NG action movie would be nice but a DOA action ecchi movie with REAL CAST... i dont like this

  • DeathgiverX

    Posted Sep 22, 2006 2:40 pm GMT

    If there is a God, please just let it die before they release it, PLEASE!

  • inYuashiaZero

    Posted Sep 10, 2006 12:26 am GMT

    if they want the series to live on forever they will kill the movie, i apprive of the MK movie though ive been waiting for a new one. and its already had 2 good yet crapy movies so what ever
    or mabey they should change the movie name to "no this is not DOA it just looks like it and has no realation)

  • volumesoxxs

    Posted Jul 19, 2006 5:19 pm GMT

    I saw the teaser, this show is going to bomb it looks so lame.

  • Reyveign

    Posted Jun 27, 2006 4:40 am GMT

    Meh, shouldn'ta said anything before seeing the teaser. Pfeh, IMO its gonna suck. *Sigh* Can't these directors get anything right?

  • Reyveign

    Posted Jun 27, 2006 4:34 am GMT

    As long as Uwe Boll isn't the director, I think this movie has a chance... but then again, maybe not. I suppose we'll see.

  • rodimus_prime85

    Posted Jun 19, 2006 12:54 am GMT

    Is it even going to follow the plot of the game? Or are we going to be looking forward to another Street Fighter, The Incrediably Poor Movie?

  • LeiGet

    Posted Jun 12, 2006 3:47 am GMT

    It'll have a better chance than Doom.

    Quote from John Carmack, programmer of Doom:
    "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."

  • LiGhTNiNG-RaY

    Posted May 11, 2006 11:14 am GMT

    I don't know what other might have think about this coming movie, but honestly I don't like it... I've seen the trailer... It's not even like the DoA game itself.
    I mean character are not even resemble to the fighter profile...
    I've seen the actress play as Ayane is a lot older than the actress that play as Kasumi... Isn't Ayane suppose to be younger than Kasumi?
    Why do they messed up the good game? It would be nice if it resembles the game... especially the character profile...

  • EvIlKiNgKoOpA

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 8:34 pm GMT

    if they dont got a good plot

    they better have the hottest chick
    half naked

    ofcourse for us guys

    to have something to see

    and i know none of those DOA chicks
    have C cup sizes bras

  • sprawwl

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 3:04 pm GMT

    I have a bad feeling about this game. From what I've seen, movies based around fights tend to be:
    1. hopelessly lame
    2. not very good at portraying fighting
    3. hopelessly lame

    let's just hope that this one is an exception. I'm not holding my breath, though...

  • silentmobius

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 6:02 am GMT

    Ohhh boy, I just saw the trailer of this movie online. Lets just say that it makes Street Fighter the movie look like a classic award winner.

  • Eclipse_ShinRa

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 5:07 am GMT

    lets just hope they dont miss this moive up 2

  • Eclipse_ShinRa

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 5:07 am GMT

    bdub20791 is right, Motalcombat, Doom, just sucked, the ony movie i seen that as good off a game was FFAC, and soon to be halo

  • ewjim

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 3:51 am GMT

    When do they finish to make BAD films from GREAT games?!!
    Shame on they heads!!!

  • lostn

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 2:51 am GMT

    Any word on Dennis Rodman as Zack?

  • GunBlade2112

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 10:57 pm GMT

    the last fighting games movies to come out were mortal kombat, and everyone's favorite mistake The STREET FIGHTER MOVIE. holy holy crap. my eyes are burning...

  • Blobio-

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 9:26 pm GMT

    magus is right...fighting but no solid plot? -_-

  • CrashSpyro123

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 8:34 pm GMT

    It should've been a CG movie like Advent Children since the cast doesn't exactly fit the enhanced models that Tecmo has created.

  • drangel_jam

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 5:34 pm GMT

    Hope

  • xypher7

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 4:57 pm GMT

    This movie is gonna suck and ill tell u why. Devin Aoki! She's really hot and a great person to play Kasumi except one little detail, shes got the chest of a brick wall and thats not gonna fly for Kasumi. I've seen a pic and i cried tears of sorrow...hopefully there'll be some hellr editing of tricks or something otherwise prepare the waterworks...

  • SuperSamyon

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 4:11 pm GMT

    Just found the answer to my own question, he played Super Shredder... Ill be dang... never knew that.

  • SuperSamyon

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 4:10 pm GMT

    Kevin Nash played in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2????? What role did he play?

  • LotusboyRock

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 3:30 pm GMT

    well as long as uwe boll isnt near it it might have a chance not to suck complete ass... i hope for the best

  • crithon

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 3:13 pm GMT

    You've got to be kidding me
    Personally I wouldn't mind a Anime like Battle Arena Toshinden, but a live action film with Devon Aoki?
    I say this again, Why make a bad film when you can make a great game.

  • bdub20791

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 2:51 pm GMT

    i almost hope they DONT make a story. Did any of you remember Mortal Kombat? Or Street Fighter? OR ANY OTHER VIDEO GAME BASED MOVIE. Just wait for halo, just wait for halo...

  • Eclipse_ShinRa

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 2:13 pm GMT

    its going to be great^____^

  • Early

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 1:51 pm GMT

    Don't forget that beautiful Holly Valance will also play a role in this movie. :-)

  • Alpha1972

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 1:37 pm GMT

    This should be entertaining...nothing more..nothing less. As long as it privde action, I am there.

  • weirdpixels

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 1:32 pm GMT

    yea lets hope so

  • TheLastKunoichi

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 1:31 pm GMT

    I hope its good.

  • magus704

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 1:29 pm GMT

    Let's face it, the fights might be cool, but what about the story. Oh yeah, I forgot, fighting games always have really lame stories. Guess that means we won't be riveted by something dramatically gripping huh?

  • epic_nemesis

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 1:23 pm GMT

    i reserve the right to be skeptical

  • Syntax_Error

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 1:13 pm GMT

    This is from the same guy who worked on Drunken Master and The Transporter? I'm sold =D

  • mayatola

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 1:09 pm GMT

    *holds breath*

  • NeoJedi

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 1:06 pm GMT

    Sounds like a good idea, and coming from a martial arts expert, it should be realistic combat in a make believe world.

  • deleteduser

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 1:03 pm GMT

    Awesome!

  • neoand12

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 12:43 pm GMT

    please no CGI BOOBs

  • Ryowolf

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 12:39 pm GMT

    w00t

  • CountZero

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 12:37 pm GMT

    Let's not forget that Corey Yuen directed the recent film "The Transporter", as well as doing fight choreogaphy for the sequel.

    As the DoA games are fighting games, we should get movie based on a video game which focuses completely on one of the primary things that made the game popular the fighting... and maybe we'll have some bouncing boobies too.

  • Led___Zeppelin

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 12:20 pm GMT

    NO NO NO!!! STOP THE MADNESS!!!

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